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OPINION, p12

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COD hosts Illinois Human Trafficking Task Force Hearing p6

FEATURES

Wings Student Gallery: Animalia Nexus p10-11

SPORTS

Point / Counterpoint: UEFA Champions League p14

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NEWS FEATURES

4 Code Now creator Neil Sales-Griffin on the perks of perserverance

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Sunset 5K promises to be bigger and better

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OPINION SPORTS

White Supremacist-ish?

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Point / Counterpoint

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NEWS Code Now creator Neil Sales-Griffin on the perks of perserverance Brian McKenna · Reporter

Neil Sales-Griffin (right) giving a talk to students about learning to succeed

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Code Now participants at Neil Sales-Griffin’s workshop

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rowing up in a part of Chicago not many people make it out of, The Legend of Zelda helped salvage Neil Sales-Griffin’s future.

The game, and others of its role-playing genre, supplied endless amounts of dialogue that made Sales-Griffin want to read and excel at it. “(Role-playing games) helped shape how I saw things,” Sales-Griffin told a College of DuPage audience last Friday night.

The way Sales-Griffin came to see things would eventually put him on the path to creating a $5 billion business known as Outcome Health. But as a boy, and even a teenager, he lived off of fried bologna sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly quesadillas. All the while, he tried to avoid getting sucked into the despair of his southside neighborhood.

“It was not a place you could just simply walk around,” Sales-Griffin said.

Instead of walking, he

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ran. Excelling at football and track enough to earn a chance to participate in the Junior Olympics, only to lose the opportunity following a back injury. Nonetheless NSG persevered and was able to attend Northwestern University for economics.

“I thought money was going to make me happy.”

Sales-Griffin told his audience during COD’s first STEMinar. As a college student, he started businesses and made connections that would prove vital in his future career path.

After school, Sales-Griffin interned at UBS Bank, making more in the threemonth period than his mother made in a year. He also worked at OCA Ventures and Sandbox Industries where he was a “Entrepreneur in Residence.”

As Sales-Griffin watched the app craze skyrocket in the late 2000’s, he felt it was his calling to be a part of it. He left his job and decided to learn coding.

“With no experi-

ence, I set out to learn how to make software,” recalled Sales-Griffin Sales-Griffin’s entrepreneurial path earned him an invitation to COD’s brand new Science and Math seminar sessions called “STEMinar.” He spoke Sep. 15 in a Health and Science center full of people eager to hear from someone who could inspire them to great lengths.

Sales-Griffin started his presentation with a simple line: “This’ll be fun.”

With a dream to open the general population to the possibility to learn computer science Sales-Griffin co-founded the nation’s (and possibly the world's) first “coding bootcamps.” Initially called Code Academy, the bootcamps are now known as Starter League.

After selling Starter League to Fullstack Academy, Sales-Griffin founded Code Now, which focuses in on high school students in low income areas interested in coding, de-

sign and entrepreneurship.

“I don’t believe in failure,” Sales-Griffin said during the audience question and answer session., “I only believe in expensive mistakes.”

NSG is no stranger to mistakes. Because of that,Code Now and Starter League don’t focus on “carrots and sticks”, but encourage failure to learn exactly what the student had done wrong.

The college’s STEMnar series will focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics. All STEMinar events are free admission and only require a simple review short after the talk is over. Located in HSC 1234 at 7:00 at night, guests from a variety of backgrounds will be visiting to talk throughout the Fall and Spring semester.

COD’s next STEMinar guest speaker will be Angel Price, who assisted in creating the newest Disney attraction - “Pandora - The World of Avatar.”

NEWS Q+A / COD’s new Director of Communications and Public Relations

Vandy Manyeh · News Editor

education as a nice fit?

WP: It is a nice fit because Chicago Housing Authority dealt with all types of people at different times in their lives. And I also have a background in higher education from the University of Chicago.

I try to bridge my experience in public relations and positively looking at an organization and trying to get the best into the public light.

COD Archives Director of Communications and Public Relations Wendy Parks

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endy Parks is College of DuPage's new director of communications and public relations. Parks will serve as the college's spokesperson and lead the news bureau and community relations department here at COD. Vandy Manyeh: Who is Wendy Parks?

Wendy Parks: I am a professional communicator who thoroughly enjoys communication, public relations, marketing and any ways to communicate with people in today’s ever-changing society.

I have a background in

mass communication and journalism. I have a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an MBA degree from Loyola University. So I have some experience of the journalism aspect of the business and then the business aspect of a business. I did some work for the Associated Press. I later went into public relations and worked for the Wisconsin Energy Corporation as their spokesperson; Johnson Publishing Company; University of Chicago; and the Chicago Housing Authority.

VM: Do you see higher

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VM: How important is public relations to a college like COD? WP: It is absolutely essential. This is a wonderful university with bright and exciting people. We need to ensure that we share this good news with the rest of the world.

VM: What are your strategic goals in this new role?

WP: I am doing a listening tour, and talking with a variety of people; that includes students. I want to hear what they have to say in terms of the best ways to get the word out about the College of DuPage and what they see as some opportunities for our department to do a better job. We have an amazing staff made out of very hardworking people.

I am very excited to work with them. We are going to make a great team working together. I’ve been welcomed by the president and the cabinet.

VM: What are current programs across the public relations department here at the college?

WP: One of the exciting things we have down the road is the 5K run. We are in the last stretch of that. This year will be the largest attendance since its inception. We are going to be announcing something very exciting that’s going to be a part of it.

VM: COD enrollment declined in 2016. One of the reasons why that happened was because of the trouble with the HLC. Students weren’t coming to a school that was placed on probation. How crucial is your role to the entire rebranding process of the college?

WP: Let us look at a wider context. If you look at schools across the country, you will see that enrollment has declined somewhat. We are very excited because we believe that’s on the rise. COD has a lot of exciting programs. Our executive team has put in place a strategy to increase

enrollment. And when you look at other schools, particularly the other community colleges, we are not as low as some of the area schools from a statistics standpoint.

VM: We have made tremendous progress as a college under our new president. How are you going to pass on this message that COD is now a great place to be?

WP: When you look at some of our programs, and some of the hardworking faculty and some of the classes that they are executing, that’s definitely going to get the word out.

Also, the work that we are doing in the community; we have COD cares program. We just don’t adhere to the needs of our students, we want to ensure that we cater to the needs of the community.

VM: COD is a nice place for international students in terms of price and the quality of education. How do you intend to extend your recruitment drive across America?

WP: Listening to international students is a part of my listening tour.

I want to talk to a wide variety of students and get their ideas about the best

ways we can communicate outside of the country. It would be nice to pour in more international students who have a lot to offer the community.

VM: Years from now, how would you like to be remembered here at College of DuPage?

WP: I hope people will remember that I had a great team that worked under the direction of Ann Rondeau, and that I carried out her vision to make COD the best community college in this nation.

VM: Any final comments?

WP: I’m very excited to be here. The level of warmth that I’ve felt is great and authentic. A lot of people have emailed me or called me and said that they are glad to be here.

We just hope here in the communications and public relations department that people will give us a call because we have a lot of tools to get what the faculty is doing out into the public’s eye. Also, the pragmatic efforts that we are doing. We really hope that people take advantage of our department to help them get the word out about COD.

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NEWS COD hosts Illinois Human Trafficking Task Force Hearing Vandy Manyeh · News Editor

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Rep. Patricia Bellock and other members of the panel at the Human Trafficking Task Force hearing

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a s h i n g t o n’s immigration crackdown is a thorn in the flesh for another group of people—survivors of human trafficking.

Harriet is a human trafficking survivor receiving assistance from Heartland Alliance, a Chicago–based anti-poverty organization.

She moved to the United States from a war-torn country after a guy tricked her into believing he loved her.

One of many hearings scheduled by the Illinois Human Trafficking Task Force was held at the College of DuPage on Sept.

14, aimed at raising awareness about what people like Harriet go through.

Harriet was granted a fiancé visa to live what should have been the “American Dream.”

Instead, the man she trusted forced her to “slave, cook and clean” and have sex with him. She later became pregnant and bore two children. Domestic violence and verbal abuse

kicked in. In this pandemonium, Harriet had to do whatever her trafficker wanted her to do or lose her legal status in the U.S. When Harriet reached her breaking point, she escaped. The result was an expired visa and no access to services to provide for her children. In immigration terms, Harriet became undocumented.

Heartland Alliance became a source of relief.

“The scheme to bring her to the U.S. was fraudulent, a potential for marriage was a lie, and the goal was to exploit her for work in the home,” recounts Heartland Alliance’s Associate Director – Freedom from Trafficking Derci Flynn.

Harriet and many unknown survivors fear being deported and separated from their children. Harriet was able to get the help she needed because she was brave enough to seek help.

“Sowing fear will only keep people like Harriet

from seeking help in such situation,” added Flynn.

“This will stop people who have undergone the most horrible abuse from coming forward.”

State Rep. Patricia Bellock, flanked by lawmakers, attorneys and stakeholders hosted the hearing at COD to get feedback and engage organizations working to fight human trafficking within Illinois.

In August of 2016, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation that created this task force to seek an end to human trafficking.

Last year, 555 calls were made to the human trafficking hotline in Illinois.

Also, 122 cases were reported during the same period. This is coupled with Chicago and its metropolitan areas being a hub for human trafficking according to authorities.

A stakeholder like Flynn wants the task force to shift the dialogue and talk about other issues that facilitate human trafficking—race, age and poverty.

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“We know that human trafficking exists because poverty exists,” said Flynn.

“We know that nearly onethird of people living in Illinois are living at or near the poverty line, and that extreme poverty reaches all 102 counties of the State of Illinois.”

College of DuPage isn’t new to this type of conversation. Last year, Phi Theta Kappa hosted a series of events to create an awareness about Illinois’ battle with human trafficking.

The society was again engaged with this hearing.

“Having this hearing is important to raise awareness of the efforts being done to eradicate human trafficking and learning about what organizations are doing to combat it,” said PTK’s Vice President Heather Blaney.

For the society’s Honor in Action (HIA) project, they intend to help survivors at safe houses feel confident and provide various cosmotology services.

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FEATURES Sunset 5K promises to be bigger and better than ever Jackie Pawl · Features Editor

COD President Ann Rondeau sat down with Courier News Editor Vandy Manyeh to talk about her first year in campus and her plans moving forward.

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n Saturday, Sept.

23, children, students and residents will line up to run in the annual Sunset 5K, which is expected to be better than ever before.

The evening boasts food trucks, dueling ice sculptors, face painting--and even the 2016 Chicago Cubs World Series Trophy.

The event begins at 2 p.m. with the food truck rally in lot College 1A, behind the Physical Ed-

ucation Center. Nineteen trucks have committed, including Auntie Vee's desserts, Beavers Coffee and Donuts, Pierogi Wagon and Toasty Taco. Interested parties do not have to be signed up for the race to indulge—just RSVP on the COD website and bring your appetite!

The 2016 Cubs World Series Trophy will be on display from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. during the food truck rally as part of the Tro-

phy Tour. Fans may view and take pictures with the trophy during this time.

Simultaneously, COD is hosting a Kid Zone and "Touch-a-Truck", where children can have their faces painted, create art with sidewalk chalk, have balloon animals made, and even have the opportunity to touch a fire engine, police car, tow truck and an 18-wheeler. The 100-yard Youth Dash will begin at 4 p.m. on the

stadium's football field, with only a $5 fee to enter. This year, a new format includes ages 5, 6-7 and 8-9 ranges in three separate dashes. The winner of each race will receive a $25 Visa gift card, and every participant will receive a congratulatory medal aand an unchipped bib.

After the dueling ice sculptors display at 3 p.m. and the Youth Dash, the 5K Run/Walk will begin promptly at 5 p.m.,

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scholarship for graduates who attend COD. Visitors to the race and food truck rally can also donate a healthy, nonperishable food item to the "Stuffa-Truck" Food Drive. include additional registration stations, 700+ parking spots, finisher medals for every participant, and an improved race lineup for optimum efficiency.

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FEATURES

Wings Student Gallery: Jackie Pawl · Features Editor

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he Wings Art Gallery hosted an opening-day reception for the new Animalia Nexus exhibition on Thursday, Sept.

14, featuring the works of four COD student artists: Meghan Koegel,

Alicia Solis, Elizabeth Theis and Tyler Yocum.

The reception, which was free to the public, was well-received by students and faculty, which bodes well for the future of the exhibit.

On display until Oct.

27, Animalia Nexus is a collaborative work by the four students—a stackable sculpture which imitates many different animals before splitting into each artist's collection. Among the wildlife are snakes, piranhas, rhi-

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nos, beavers, and more.

Each work in the exhibit reveals just how much work was done by the artists, from the smooth, shiny finishes of the animals' hides to scratchedup, textured furs.

Throughout its long history, COD has striven to celebrate its students' creativity. The Wings Gallery's mission is to "provide a venue for College of Dupage art students to pursue cultural practices, which reflect

the ideas and concepts of contemporary art."

The show runs from Sept. 14 to Oct. 27, and the gallery is open Monday-Friday from 11:00am3:00pm in SSC 2210.

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OPINION EDITORIAL

White Supremacist-ish?

ESPN host Jemele Hill had a point when she recently called President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter

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hen sports journalist and ESPN host Jemele Hill tweeted in response to a fan on Sept.

11 that President Donald Trump “is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself [with] other white supremacists,” she catapulted herself into a world of controversy.

Since the tweets, several statements have been issued in an attempt to quell the scandal. ESPN reprimanded Hill for her tweets. Then Hill issued somewhat of an apology,to ESPN-rather than the president, saying she regretted her “personal beliefs” might have painted the network in a negative light. To this, ESPN issued a final statement saying they accepted her apology. Perhaps the most puzzling part of this whole controversy came when White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Hill’s tweets “a fireable offense” during a press briefing.

If ESPN should fire Jemele Hill for thinking Donald Trump is a white supremacist, then the unemployment line should be getting a lot longer than it already is. Hill is certainly not the first person to call Trump out for being a racist. So why

is she catching so much heat? The answer might have something to do with the fact that she’s a black woman, which makes her a very easy target for scrutiny.

Let’s briefly take a look at the not-so-fake-news here. During Trump’s presidential run, you couldn’t turn your TV to any station carrying the 2016 presidential election without seeing some person accusing Trump of deliberately spewing racist rhetoric and inciting racial violence. Many have said his entire campaign was built on it.

Trump made headlines for comparing Mexicans to “criminals and rapists”, and it was

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EDITORIAL BOARD OPINION EDITOR KIMBERLY WILSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF JOSEPH MOLINO FEATURES EDITOR JACKIE PAWL GRAPHICS EDITOR ANTHONY TRAN SPORTS EDITOR CARLOS PETERSEN PHOTOGRAPHER HANNAH DAVIS REPORTER BRIAN MCKENNA

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reported that several minorities were assaulted by Trump’s white supporters during various rallies

throughout his campaign.

Since then, Trump h a s n’t

stopped fanning the flames of racial tension whenever he can. His handling of the deadly protests in Charlottesville is a prime example.

Trump stated there were “bad people on both sides,” equating the white supremacist group to the people who protested against them.

His response is undoubtedly still fresh in many people’s minds, including, evidently, his own.

He recently defended his initial remarks *again* while answering a question from a reporter aboard Air Force One. “You look at really what’s happened since Charlottesville, a lot of people are saying, and people have actually written,

‘Gee, Trump might have a point.’” Which people though, Mr. President?

The fact is, if you look at what’s happened since Trump announced his run for the White House, Jemele Hill might have an even better point.

The majority of criticism coming Hill’s way are people decrying her use of such a public platform to express personal beliefs.

But we don’t see too many people saying she’s actually wrong. Why? There’s far too much evidence in support of her sentiments for people to make a convincing argument on the contrary. President Trump has been caught with his hand in the race cookie jar one too many times. He shouldn’t expect nobody’s going to call him out on it. If, in the future, Mr. Trump doesn’t want to be labeled in such defaming terms, then he needs to start spreading a genuine message of togetherness instead of segregation, and it needs to be done with some level of consistency. Whether it be a special address to the nation or even maybe inviting Hill to the White House to discuss why she feels the way she does, something needs to be done by the president to prove Jemele Hill wrong.

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SPORTS VANDY MANYEH

MAN UTD WILL WIN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

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No team is ready to spray champagne in the locker room other than Manchester United. They are the favorite to win the 2018 UEFA Champions League. In Europe’s elite soccer competition, Manchester United will face Benfica, Basel and CSKA Moscow in the zonal stage. United have won six out of eight games versus Benfica and are one win ahead of both Basel and CSKA Moscow in head-to-head record.

Now, to the team’s strength: United are a foe to contend with. A loaded lineup and a head coach that is more conversant than other coaches in Europe’s biggest soccer competition shape this team as the “good old Manchester United.”

The last time Manchester United won the Champions League, in 2008, it was an orthodox display of English Football throughout the league that earned them bragging rights.

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Forget about Edwin van der Sar, Wes Brown and Wayne Rooney.The current squad has the same energy and psyche to compete.

Goalkeeper David De Gea is the fifth man in the well-organized defense.

He is not a goalkeeper who swiftly kicks the ball into play. His ability to pass is superb, and it gives United an added advantage on possession.

The defense is nothing but a culmination of talent and players with the tenac-

ity to slow down vicious attackers. Captain Antonio Valencia has embraced his role as the team’s starting right-back. He combines his defensive ability with overlaps on the right attacking wing, supporting attackers when they are in need of volleys. In a defense with Daley Blind, Eric Bailly and Phil Jones, this defense has allowed just two goals in their first four domestic games.

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The European football superpower, Real Madrid, enters this year’s UEFA Champions League as the clear favorite to once again hoist the trophy at year’s end. The white shirts have established themselves as the premiere club in the world, having won three of the last four Champions League and creating talks of being deemed the greatest dynasty in modern football.

Real Madrid returns everyone except James Rodriguez from their championship run the previous season. Portuguese megastar, Cristiano Ronaldo,

will once again head a dangerous attack for Real as he hopes to cap another potential Ballon d’Or-worthy campaign. Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema are going to be paired alongside Ronaldo as they form the best attack in Europe, combining for 19 goals last season. Another thing to not underestimate is the passing ability from Ronaldo as he was second in the UCL (UEFA Champions League) in assists last season with six.

Toni Kroos and Luka Modric are two brilliant midfielders that Coach Zinedine Zidane is very

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high on. Their ability to find the open attackers are vital to this high powered attack. Ball movement and pace have helped elevate this once stagnant Real midfield to one of the best in the world. The issue for teams facing this team will be attacking their midfield with so much ground to cover.

The defenseman Sergio Ramos, Marcelo Vieira and Dani Carvajal will be pestering the opposition as they rally to the ball the way that Real fans are accustomed to. Their ability to pass the ball are second to none, combining for 11

assists as a unit last season.

Kaylar Navas has emerged as a stallworth as a goalkeeper, doing an unbelievable job of orchestrating and navigating the back end of the Madrid defense. It’s been such a pleasant surprise to have the emergence of Navas after the departure of Real legend Iker Casillas.

Real Madrid also will have favorable group matches being placed in a group with Tottenham, APOEL, and Dortmund.

The Real faithful should look at this years champions league as an opportunity to add to the already

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large trophy case. They should be able to come out of the group stage relatively

healthy and ready to wreak havoc on the rest of Europe’s best. Hala Madrid!

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Girl Like You – Toro y Moi Genre: Chillwave, Electropop, Psychedelic Similar to: Washed Out, Neon Indian Girl Like You wafts with such delicateness that it’s hard not to get yourself hypnotized and lost in the song’s aural beats. Toro y Moi serenades the girl of his dreams with such naïveté and earnestness as he blends seduction and auto-tune, skillfully evoking a sense of yearning for the kind of love that leaves you with butterflies in your stomach. With synths so intoxicating, the song’s melodic arrangement feels like it’s slathered and dripping wet with honey– one that will surely satisfy your sugar cravings as you slowly shimmy with every listen, guilt and calorie-free. —Joseph

VRY BLK — Jamila Woods Genre: Rhythm/ Soul/ Hip-Hop / Sounds Like: Noname, Chance the Rapper, Saba VRY BLK starts by enticing the audience with a trip-hop/EDM facade, which quickly transforms into a spoken word piece that you can bop your head to. Less than a minute into the song Jamila makes it very clear that her songs are speaking about the plight of the black community in the United States. Her use of artful wordplay is provocative and leaves no room for falsehoods - she calls it like she sees it. This song recognizes the fears and worries of the black community when it comes to police brutality, and then Jamila lovingly provides the listener with the reassurance that the black community will never be torn apart, and additionally that she personally will fight for her siblings of color till the very end. —Hannah

Kiss the Breeze — Sticky Fingers Genre: Indie Rock/Reggae/Psychedelic Rock Sounds like: Safia, Jungle Giants. The Rubens Although Australian rock band Sticky Fingers have been in hiatus since February, their music is still relevant as it breaks norms and fluently stirs in multiple different styles and ideas. This song especially will make you think about things a little differently, not too reggae not too rock, just a nice blend with a soothing vocal from Dylan Frost. It’s hard to pick one song from these guys, they can fill any type of mood you’ll find yourself in and I highly recommend checking them out. ­—Brian

Bohemian Rhapsody – Panic! at the Disco Genre- Pop, Punk Rock Sounds like: blink-182, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance A wonderful interpretation of Queen’s classic. Panic at the Disco brings their own twist for the Suicide Squad album. This remake is a beautiful display of the vocal talent possessed by Brendan Urie. His melodious vocals are paired with a passionate playing on the bass. This is a great song to listen when you’re looking to get through the last of a tough workout and need something rythmic to get that second wind. A great song for anyone who like contemporary remakes. –Carlos

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